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Kristin Bjorklund, a longtime member of the Family Feud game show producing team, died in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 5 of sepsis after undergoing a kidney transplant. She was 67. Here death was announced by her friend Diane Hamilton. Related Story Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2023: P…

Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury has renewed hit game show Family Feud through the 2025-26 season, taking the Fremantle-produced show into its landmark 50th year on television. Leading station groups Fox, CBS, Nexstar, Scripps and Tegna have signed multi-year renewals for the nationally syndicated ratings…

Louie Anderson, the veteran comedian, game show host and three-time Emmy winner, has died. He was 68. The Baskets star died Friday morning in Las Vegas, where he had entered hospital this week for treatment of diffuse large B cell lymphoma, a form of cancer, his longtime publicist Glenn Schwartz told Deadline. A…

Jeopardy! perked up in its return to originals during syndication’s premiere week with a 5.1 household rating. The week of Sept. 13 included the five episodes with Mike Richards as a permanent Jeopardy! host that were taped during his first and only day of filming before he stepped down amid multiple…

EXCLUSIVE: Syndicated gameshow Family Feud is the latest production set to get back up and running. Deadline understands that the Steve Harvey-fronted show is returning to the studio in Atlanta on Tuesday, August 4. The show is set to start airing original episodes for its 22nd season on September 14. While the show…

EXCLUSIVE: ITV is reinventing Family Fortunes for the coronavirus age, breathing new life into an entertainment show that was last on British television in 2015. Deadline can reveal that Fremantle-owned Britain’s Got Talent co-producer Thames is working with ITV to pilot a lockdown version of the much-loved format…

Fremantle’s syndicated game show Family Feud has become the latest entertainment TV program to suspend production in response to the fast growing coronavirus pandemic. The Fremantle series had switched to tapings without an audience Thursday. Fremantle’s America’s Got Talent, which also went audience-less Thursday…

A Family Feud contestant who made a crucial mistake of identification cost her team a chance to win the game on the Canadian edition of the game show. In a clip rapidly going viral, contestant Eve Dubois stepped up on Thursday night with a chance to advance her family to the next round and a shot at $10,000. Host…

Survey says: Family Feud is going international — Africa to be specific. Steve Harvey has been set to launch and host versions of Fremantle’s Family Feud in South Africa and Ghana. In an unprecedented deal with Fremantle, Harvey's media company Steve Harvey Global has obtained the rights to license the format for the…

Howard Felsher, the Emmy-award winning executive producer of the Richard Dawson-era Family Feud who bounced back after getting caught up in the game show fixing scandal of the 1950s, died July 23 at home in Tarzana, California. He was 90. His death was announced by his family an obituary in the Los Angeles…

Jay-Z released his video for his single “Family Feud” last night exclusively on Tidal, although it was more than a standard music video premiere. Much like anything else he and Beyonce create, it was a cultural event to punctuate 2017 with the most inclusive, woke A-list cast you will ever see in a music video. Helmed…

With Steve Harvey lately in the news for conferring with Donald Trump, Kenan Thompson’s SNL take on the game show host was pretty much a foregone conclusion. But the running Family Feud bit made an especially efficient – and pretty funny – way for Saturday Night Live to cover this week’s pop culture bases. In the…